MacMurray College names new provost

Journal-Courier staff

Published 4:30 am, Friday, January 6, 2017

Beverly Rodgers has been named provost and vice president of Academic Affairs and Student Life at MacMurray College.

Rodgers will begin Feb. 20, replacing John Cox, who has served as the interim provost. She is the dean of the School of Arts and Sciences and an anthropology professor at Ottawa University in Kansas. She has also served at a vice president at Leech Lake Tribal College in Minnesota and as a professor and chairwoman of the Arthur Morgan Fellows at Antioch College in Ohio.

She has a doctorate in anthropology from Ohio State University.

MacMurray College President Mark Tierno said he is happy to welcome Rodgers to the school.

“Her knowledge and experience in higher education will greatly benefit MacMurray College and help advance the college’s values that are rooted in the liberal arts,” he said.